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Psalm 83
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| 83:1
Keep not thou silence, O God: hold not thy peace, and be not still, O God. |
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| 83:2
For, lo, thine enemies make a tumult: and they that hate thee have lifted
up the head. |
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| 83:3
They have taken crafty counsel against thy people, and consulted against
thy hidden ones. |
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They have said, Come, and let us cut them off from being a nation; that
the name of Israel may be no more in remembrance. |
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| 83:5
For they have consulted together with one consent: they are confederate
against thee:
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| 83:6
The tabernacles of Edom, and the Ishmaelites; of Moab, and the Hagarenes;
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Gebal, and Ammon, and Amalek; the Philistines with the inhabitants of
Tyre;
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| 83:8
Assur also is joined with them: they have holpen the children of Lot.
Selah. |
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| 83:9
Do unto them as unto
the Midianites; as to Sisera, as to Jabin, at the brook of Kison:
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(83:9-18) "Do unto them as unto the Midianites ... they became as dung for the earth ... persecute them ...
Fill their faces with shame ... Let them ... perish: That men may know that
thou ... art the most high over all the earth."
How should we treat our enemies?
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| 83:10
Which perished at Endor: they became as dung for the earth.
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| 83:11
Make their nobles like Oreb, and like Zeeb: yea, all their princes as
Zebah, and as Zalmunna:
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Who said, Let us take to ourselves the houses of God in possession. |
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O my God, make them like a wheel; as the stubble before the wind. |
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As the fire burneth a wood, and as the flame setteth the mountains on
fire; |
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So persecute them with
thy tempest, and make them afraid with thy storm. |
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| 83:16
Fill their faces with
shame; that they may seek thy name, O LORD. |
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| 83:17
Let them be confounded
and troubled for ever; yea, let them be put to shame, and perish: |
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| 83:18
That men may know that
thou, whose name alone is JEHOVAH, art the most high over all the earth.
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(83:18)
"Thou ... art the most high over all the earth."
Who is the Lord of the earth?
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